Alright mason wizards, I need some quick design advice, I'm currently creating lots of components, each component is essentially a web form, and each form does a different job, ie, one form might take a name and remove privileges on that name, another might add them etc. Then I have a page where each of these forms/widgets/components is loaded an admin console if you will. I'm trying to come up with a way I can have each form work autonomously from the console while having them all embedded in it. So to expand, I can submit the user-name in the revoke privilege form, and upon submission the title for that widget will read something like $username's privileges revoked. But, I can't think of a way to submit the data, allow the widget to know what was submitted, and to be modified for embedding in the console.

This is currently the process:
  1. Widget (bleh.mas) submits to the console (index.html).
  2. Widget (bleh.mas) reads from console's (index.html's) submission variables (the ones that presumably it submitted), to get data for processing.

However, one minute problem, the data fields aren't unique. I call all usernames, 'name_user', and I would like to keep that for consistency. So each widget thinks the name_user field is its and changes the title. So the problem now, is having the widget (bleh.mas) know which widget (out of the pool of them) submitted the data, so I can have the title of that widget (and the underling sql) act accordingly.

The current idea I'm having is a hidden input type, however I hate them, I think it is a sign of bad web design. Another idea which would be pristine if I could figure away to get the model to work would be to have the widgets submit the data to themselves, each widget is a file_component, and to have the widget modify its title (among other things) for the invocation and call the console, where its brethren (other widgets) will be displayed unaltered; but, it would have forgone appearance alterations.



Evan Carroll
www.EvanCarroll.com

In reply to Mason design issue. by EvanCarroll

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